Right after the hardware upgrade, the general speed on the site seemed to have improved. After some time, it had slowed down again. It seems now that it is at the same level or worse.

I notice terrible lag in the polls most of all. Just entering polls from the front page can take 30+ sec. Posting a reply can sit long enough that the user is sure its not working. 15-20sec? Outside 30+. Forums had the best improvement gain after the upgrade. Now, I see about the same response.

At 8/1/2015 2:51:23 PM, TBR wrote:Notice my double post? Reflection of the problem with lag. There just isnt enough load on this site for this sort of performance penalty.

I didn't see a double post, lol

Look at the forum at the same time as the original. Its there.

Look, the problems are not huge, the biggest problem is perception. The perception is that no one cares one bit. True or not, that is what people think, and regardless of progress on any one issue, they will remain behind the expectation curve until they address communications better.

At 8/1/2015 2:42:00 PM, TBR wrote:Right after the hardware upgrade, the general speed on the site seemed to have improved. After some time, it had slowed down again. It seems now that it is at the same level or worse.

I notice terrible lag in the polls most of all. Just entering polls from the front page can take 30+ sec. Posting a reply can sit long enough that the user is sure its not working. 15-20sec? Outside 30+. Forums had the best improvement gain after the upgrade. Now, I see about the same response.

This was a lateral move.

I agree, I have noticed every once in a while the page will not load, same symptoms. Its a shame.

At 8/2/2015 1:56:04 AM, bsh1 wrote:My font's also been messed up post-update.

Why I can't seem to get a majority behind the idea of bug tracking is inexplicable to me. It is next to impossible to manage any bit of software (or site) without a little organization, and the site is lacking that.

I can look on the forums almost any day finding a complaint, and the killer of it is, the perception from the users is a MUCH LARGER problem than the issue that is reported.

OK. The thing is, without going to great extremes, we could go a long way by just adding one forum for bugs. A single "bug thread" is next to worthless. I outlined a concept for this elsewhere that got mixed reviews.

Know what.... Since I was thinking of Google App Script, I may just do something with it. I think I could build a serviceable bug tracker with it in a day or two...

At 8/2/2015 1:56:04 AM, bsh1 wrote:My font's also been messed up post-update.

my penis aims slightly to the left to! DAMN YOU JUGGLE!!!!

This is not about blaming the site owners, it is trying to HELP the owners.

There is nothing more frustrating than to have problems that go unreported. Some time, when the users are frustrated, you will hear "well, that has been messed up for a YEAR" and you wonder 1) is that true? 2) Why didn't I know?

I have no expectation of the owners to spend any time USING the site, so the only proper way to make issues apparent is to report them in a logical and organized way

At 8/2/2015 7:27:45 PM, TBR wrote:There is nothing more frustrating than to have problems that go unreported. Some time, when the users are frustrated, you will hear "well, that has been messed up for a YEAR" and you wonder 1) is that true? 2) Why didn't I know?

If the front page is any indication I'd say the issue is probably with the database for the site, and a bad time entry. The front page is currently looping the same debates that have long since past their voting periods. However, the time keeps looping over a hour back to 0 and then to negative values. I assume the negative is because my system time is correct and it knows that the date is in the past.

A mangled index that was intended on speeding up the site could cause this. There have been a number of date related problems recently. I mostly assumed it was due to the large amount of necro posting that was hammering the servers causing the error 500 to come up. Nothing worse than a forum fight to take out a server, except cats. Cats are always worse.